Once again I’m contributing to the LITA Top Technology Trends panel at ALA, as I have done since going on the panel in 2005. I peeked at my trends for January 2005, and I didn’t do too badly; I predicted “blogs everywhere,” and heck, even Michael Gorman is blogging, so there you go. I am […]
No sooner had I announced Twitterprose than LibraryThing went down — it’s still broken, poor Thing. My clever distinction from Twitterlit (which I enjoy tremendously) was that my entries would be strictly from creative nonfiction and that whenever possible the links would go to LibraryThing entries or online journals. Since Twitterlit does a few nonfiction […]
Open Source Radio is a wide-ranging, engaging, and all-around terrific show (and not just because they’ve had me on a couple of times). They are in a major funding realignment (how well I know about those), and though they just got a donation that will keep them going through the summer, they aren’t out of […]
Getting Things Done has improved my management in one significant way, and for that I am truly grateful. For years I have been an email slob. Though I automatically file list discussions into sub-folders, my main folder for both personal and work mail has always been a tragedy of the email commons, with so many […]
My pal Debi just posted her own “for rent” page on her site. She’s in the Chicago area, and is not only gifted with all those skills she describes — planning your company website, writing, editing, research, porting databases to the Web, even fiddling — but is a genuinely nice, patient person you’d enjoy working […]
Kudos to Mary Jane Petrowski, Associate Director of ACRL, who in response to my May 29 post wrote today, “I’m painfully aware that we are contacting new members long after they join. … I’m going pursue a solution to this problem with my colleagues here at ALA.” She playfully added, “How hard can it be, […]
I’ve had several emails/IMs today asking me if I’m the origin of the phrase “free as in free kittens” (with respect to open source software). Apparently it came up in a talk today and several people wanted to defend my honor (good luck with that). The origin of the phrase is actually Eric Lease Morgan… […]
On Monday, June 11, at 7 p.m., the United Church in Tallahassee will host an evening of Biblical storytelling with the Rev. Drew Willard. There will be a spaghetti dinner before the event. Tickets are $5. This is a fundraiser for the United Church in Tallahassee Youth Group, which is raising money for the 2008 […]
internets Originally uploaded by griffey I’m deep into the presentation zone today… but heard Bob Stein give a vision talk, had lunch with Greg Schwartz, and in two hours will get to hear Vicky Reich talk about LOCKSS and CLOCKSS, which is the kind of software that can help us reclaim the heartland of our […]
Penguin Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian Heading off to NASIG with a disheveled pile of notes to pull into Saturday’s keynote… but I’ve been reading The American Scholar instead of plowing through PowerPoint. Wendy Smith on her third reading of Dispatches in thirty years: “The book hasn’t changed, of course, but I have.” Sentences such as […]